Table of Contents
Searching the Scholarly Literature
How to Search for Public Health Resources
Where to Search for Public Health Resources
Finding Textbooks and Other References
Finding Health Data and Statistics
Evaluating Evidence in Public Health
General Guidance on Evaluating Information
Searching for Evaluation Reports
There is no single solution to finding individual evaluation reports or evaluation syntheses. They can be found in the scholarly literature, in databases of systematic reviews, on the websites of organizations, and in general on the web. The resources below will help you get started and the Clearinghouses and Evidence Reviews for Programs of Social benefit directory will lead to more resources. However, one thing to keep in mind when searching for evaluation resources reports, is that keywords like these are useful (and in databases look for evaluation report subject headings or literature types filters):
- evaluation report
- evaluation toolkit
- clearinghouse
- evidence-based policy
- "what works"
National and International Evaluation Resources
Find an Overview Report
Instead of diving right into the article literature, try seeing if there's an overview report available.
- CRS - Congressional Research Reports Collection at UNTThe U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) is where Members of Congress turn for confidential, nonpartisan research and analysis on a range of issues. A number of libraries and non-profit organizations have sought to collect as many of the released reports as possible. UNT's collection is a centralized utility that brings together these collections to search.
- Office of Inspector General (OIG)--USAIDThis is the site for USAID's Office of Inspector General (an inspector general is an investigative official in a government agency). See especially the audit reports